2007 California Public Resources Code Chapter 1. General Provisions

CA Codes (prc:13000-13003)

13000.  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that there exists
throughout the State large unincorporated areas which are
particularly suited to and used for recreation resort purposes, and
which are held and used by residents of this State but which are
inhabited only seasonally.  The Legislature further finds and
declares that these resort areas are not suited to full urban
development without destroying the very nature of the areas; but the
seasonal residents of these areas are, nevertheless, in need of
extended governmental services; and that the extension of
governmental services and the construction and financing of public
improvements in these resort areas is complicated by the facts that:
(a) many of the services are needed only seasonally, and (b) most of
the landowners whose property is benefited by the public
improvements, because they are technically nonresidents, are without
voice in the direction or method of financing of the necessary
services and improvements.  It is the intent of the Legislature in
enacting this division to provide an alternative method for the
furnishing of extended governmental services, including the
construction and financing of public improvements, within recreation
resort areas adequate to meet the needs of such areas; and to provide
for the levy of taxes within such areas in an amount sufficient to
pay for extended services provided, additional extended services to
be provided, and for public improvements installed or constructed.



13001.  This division shall be known and may be cited as the "Resort
Improvement District Law."



13002.  A resort improvement district consisting of unincorporated
territory in one county may be established pursuant to this division,
provided that 80 percent or more of the assessed valuation of the
land in the district as shown on the last equalized county assessment
roll is in nonresident ownership.


13003.  No additional districts shall be created or organized under
this division after September 17, 1965, except in the Fallen Leaf
Lake watershed within the Lake Tahoe watershed.  The provisions of
Section 13075 shall not apply in the Fallen Leaf Lake watershed
within the Lake Tahoe watershed.